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Yeah there’s a bit of industry worry about that very eventuality — hence the ultra Ethernet consortium trying to work on open source alternatives to the mellano
by mikeyouse 2y ago
Yeah there’s a bit of industry worry about that very eventuality — hence the ultra Ethernet consortium trying to work on open source alternatives to the mellanox/nvidia lock-in.
https://ultraethernet.org/ https://ultraethernet.org/
- ravetcofx 2y agoInteresting Nvidia is on the steering committee
- jclulow 2y agoCisco have sat on the steering committees for a lot of things where they had a proprietary initial version of something. It's not that unusual, and also, it's often frankly not actually that open; e.g., see the rent seeking racket for access to PCI documentation, or USB-IF actively seeking to prevent open source hardware from existing, etc.
- mikeyouse 2y agoEh, the UEC effort is a standards org through the Linux Foundation so it won't be subject to any of the usual chicanery. And actually, it looks like Nvidia is jsut a general member and not one of the Steering Committee members; https://ultraethernet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/09/23.08.10-UEC-Overview-Presentation-FINAL-2.pdf https://ultraethernet.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/20/2023/0...